by Leigh Ann Torres | Oct 29, 2018 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU, NICU Life
No one understands what a NICU parent is going through like another NICU parent. Hand to Hold’s trained, volunteer peer mentors have walked the journey before you and have the knowledge and understanding to offer the comfort that family and friends may not be...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Jul 10, 2017 | NICU Life
When your baby ends up in the NICU, the world can feel like it’s been turned up-side-down. All your normal daily routines are disrupted and set aside. Nothing outside these unit doors seems to matter as much as the life and death battle that is going on inside....
by Leigh Ann Torres | Feb 5, 2016 | NICU Life
Was there a routine, first-time parenting activity in the NICU that made you extremely nervous to perform? Maybe it was changing a diaper, or giving your preemie a bath. Whatever it was, you are in good company. All of us preemie parents have been there! In January,...
by Melissa McMurchy | Jun 22, 2015 | Family Stories, Fatherhood
When you get a phone call from the hospital telling you that they are going to transfer your wife and deliver your twins 3 months early, everything stops. The next thing I know, I’m leaving work and on my way back to the hospital. Melissa was pretty out of it...
by Julie Cruz | Mar 16, 2015 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life, Pregnancy & Bedrest
Many of you have been reading our blog articles for some time now, but did you know many of the contributors are book authors as well? Our experiences in the NICU or during a high risk pregnancy have caused us to want to share not only our experience, but the...
